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The College Mews
VOL. XVIII, No. 4
BRYN MAWR and
WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1941 Copyright, Trustees of price 10 CENTS
oryn M3wr Collcflct 1940
A New Red Class
Welcomed to Fold
At Lantern Night
Black Stocking Era Out
Alice Crowder, '42
The usual impressiveness of Lan-
tern Night was enhanced by the
advent of another red class. As
the strange and haunting melody
and harmony of the traditional
Pallas Athene Thea grew in volume
from the first far-away strains in
the depths of the library, the num-
ber of bobbing red glows increased
until it filled the darkness of the
covered walk. The red lights were
weakly coordinated by the sput-
tering and all but invisible
gleams of the blue lanterns of
Senior lantern swingers. Like the
manifestation of will-o'-the-wisps
the lights and music seemed, until
the Sophomores assembled around
the pool and the results of the "end
of the black stocking era" became
apparent. Visible beneath the lan-
terns were hundreds of legs. The
illusion was broken, not to be re-
stored until the freshmen filed back
through the cloisters. The peak of
the ceremony came in the giving
of lanterns to the Freshmen and
the retreat of the Sophomores ac-
companied by a sound like that of
the flight of a flock of birds.
Long before the Freshman hymn,
which year after year proves its
superiority over the more melodic
Sophomore hymn in its lack of
monotony, began to die away the
crunch of gravel announced the de-
parting guest, a deplorable sign of
lack of consideration.
In the singing in Pembroke Arch
the Sophomores far excelled, par-
ticularly in choice of lyric songs
and in harmony. With the singing
Continued on race Four
Calendar
Thursday, October 23
International Relations
Club, Common Room, 4.30
P. M.
Friday, October 24
A. A. Talk on Skiing, Mr.
Von Neudegg, 7.30 P. M.
Square Dance with Haver-
ford, Gym, 8.30 P. M.
Saturday, October 25
Hockey, Univ. of Penna.
Sunday, October 26
Chapel, Dr. Howard Thur-
man.
Monday, October 27
Mary Moon, Vogue Prix
de Paris, Deanery, 4.30
P. M.
Dr. Richter, Attic Art in
the Age of Tyrants, Good-
hart, 8.30 P. M.
Wednesday, October 29
Hockey, Swarthmore.
Islands9 Sculpture
Outlined by Richter
In Flexner Lecture
In the second Flexner lecture,
Dr. Richter described the art of the
Aegean Islands, Asia Minor and
Egypt, and South Italy and Sicily
in the late seventh and early sixth
century, B. C.
Among the islands, Aegina, an
important mercantile center, was
active in the sculptural field and
her seventh century coins are the
earliest in European Greece. The
great achievement of Thasos is the
collossal Kriophorus of an early
date. Naxos, largest and most
fruitful of the Cyclades, was one
of the first Greek states to experi-
ment in the carving of stone sculp-
ture; the dedications in the sanc-
tuary of Apollo at Delos give us
Continued on Page Three
Bugs Are Bugs, But Bugs Arent Beetles;
Lepisma Saccharina Uses Military Tactics
By Sally Matteson, '43
Femininity is nowhere more blat-
antly revealed than in reactions to
insects. Our indiscriminate hor-
ror of creepy, buzzy things is not
in keeping with the Bryn Mawr
tradition of mature inqui-ry and
judgment. For there are bugs, and
bugs. Only a few, in fact, arc
bugs. A June Bug, for instance,
is actually a May Beetle. Some
aren't even insects. Spiders, who
give the most ardent feminist a mo-
mentary chill, are more nearly
crabs; and the handsome, striped
centipede, which we watched cir-
cling the floor of a certain shower
we know and disappearing quietly
down the drain, is something quite
different.
Appalled at the mass ignorance,
we have started a "Know What
You're Squealing At" campaign.
For days we have been chasing,
trapping, and identifying speci-
mens found inside college buildings.
Our discover;es may be divided
roughly into things that crawl and
things that fly.
Crawling ones are more exciting.
The gun-metal creature of the
Common Room floor, which has the
deadly, unerring approach of a
small tank, is Lepisma Saccharina.
He is fond of sugar, followed by a
bit of wall-paper. Wednesday we
pursued a triangular bug down a
Pembroke corridor, and found that
he is called Enschistus Variolarim
and smells. He has an undesirable,
and we hope scarce, relative, Cimex
Lectulariu8, (Latin, lectua, bed).
Another unpopular crawler, Peri-
planeta Americana (cockroach),
was seen scuttling in the kitchen
of one of the halls�it shall be
nameless. Little red wood-lice
abound. We can only trust that
they are the sole representatives of
their tribe, for Reticulitermes Fla-
vipea (Termite), and Pediculus
Capitis, (Latin, caput, capitis,
head), are near lice cousins. Ants
are too common to mention. Bee-
tles are a confusion, but perhaps
the black one in Merion basement
was a Harpalus Pcnnsylvanicus.
We note, by the way, a distressing
tendency for species to be called
Pennsylvanicus, and, alas, there is
one small fly whose name is Sapro-
ynyza Philadelphia!
Flying things are less interest-
ing. Moths are enigmas, since no
two look alike. Then there are
mosquitoes, Anopheles and Culex,
and thousands of Musca Domestica,
but they are dull. Nobody screams
at them. Female terror seems to
be directly proportional to the
length of insect legs, and a "flying
daddy long-legs," Bittacomarpha
Clavipes,�he who complains:
"My six long legs, all here and
there,
Oppress my bosom with des-
pair,"-
causes, perhaps, the most actual
fainting.
This is just the beginning of our
research, but the next time your
room-mate stands transfixed before
a centipede, demanding hysterically
that you remove him, just remem-
ber that he is a Sentigera Forceps,
close cousin of Lithabiua Erythro-
cephalus and Euphoberiidae Acan-
therpeatea, and act accordingly.
Alumnae Return for Successful Weekend,
Hear Faculty Speak on War Perspective
Representatives of
Many Classes Return
Alumnae weekend brought hack
many alumnae, representing a
large number of classes, to the
campus. The college offered them
varied entertainment.
Starting Friday evening with
Lantern Night, the weekend activi-
ties included two plays given by
the Players' Club � The Twelve
Pound Look and Rosalind�an ad-
dress by Dr. John D. Gordon at
the formal opening of the Rare
Book Room; and a series of four
lectures by members of the faculty
in the departments of history and
political science entitled Perspec-
tive After Two Years of War.
Election
The Self-Government Asso-
ciation takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of
Helen Resor as Vice-Presi-
dent.
B. M., Haverford and
Swarthmore Continue
Academic Cooperation
In spite of hindrances the co-
operative work between Bryn
Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore
continues this year with renewed
vigor, Miss Park announced in her
recent report to the Board of Di-
rectors. There is the usual ex-
change of Haverford and Bryn
Mawr students and the two col-
leges are using several professors
in -common. Moreover, Dr. Jorge
Basadre of the University of San
Marcos in Lima has been assigned
for the year to Swarthmore, Hav-
erford and Bryn Mawr by the Com-
mittee on Cultural Relations with
South America.
Dr. Basadre will give a course
at Swarthmore the first semester
and an advanced course to both
Bryn Mawr and Haverford the sec-
ond. During his stay in the United
States he is writing a history of
Peru, requested for the Shotwell
Series of Latin American Histories.
The death of Professor Brooks of
Swarthmore and the inability of
Mr. Mantoux and Mr. Broderson to
accept the visiting professorships
offered them by Bryn Mawr and
Swarthmore respectively has re-
duced the cooperative work in the
social sciences. However, Dr. An-
dre Weil, of Haverford and Mr.
Asensio of Haverford and Mr. Bern-
heimer of Bryn Mawr will lecture
at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford.
History and Politics Departments Combine
In Symposium on War, Present and Future
ROBBINS
Taylor Hall, Room I), October
18.�Opening this series of lectures,
Miss Robbins discussed the Irish
Problem. She considered tbe ques-
tions of British naval bases in Ire-
land, of the racial minority in
Ulster, and of the internal difficul-
ties of any small neutral nation
wishing to become self-sufficient.
By the treaty of 1938, Ireland be-
came little more than an honorary
member of the British Empire. It
has the advantages of freedom
from British immigration laws and
of protection by the British navy,
but owes no obligations to England.
Naval Bases
The naval bases, which had been
ceded to England in 1922, were re-
turned to Ireland in 1938 by the
Chamberlain administration. De
Valera considered their possession
by Ireland essential. The impor-
tance of the bases to England in
securing Atlantic lines and in
guarding against possible invasion,
is, Miss Robbins said, obvious; but
their present use would probably
strain Anglo-Irish relations by
making Ireland feel she was being
drawn into the war.
Disunity of North and South
Although the Irish constitution
claims all Ireland for the Free
State, the North and South have
not yet united. Since Ulster is
richer than the Irish Free State,
Protestant in religion and still po-
litically bound to England, its in-
habitants do not regard Union with
Southern Ireland favorably. The
Continued on rage four
First Forum Opens
With Four Speakers
The first student Forum will be
held on Saturday evening, Novem-
ber 7, in the Common Room. Four
speakers will give brief talks on
opinion groups in the four regions
of the United States that affect
our national policy. The inter-
ests, organization, and effect of
such groups, along with some idea
as to their history, will be pre-
sented. Following the speeches
there will be an open discussion
in which the speakers will answer
luestions.
MANNING
Taylor Hall, Room G, October
18.�"Any attempt at a common
legislature of the English speak-
ing nations must be based on a
very flexible agreement," Mrs.
Manning, of the Department of
History, said, speaking on The
Future of the British Empire. One
must realize the disunity and di-
versity of the British Empire be-
fore one can consider any union
of these countries.
At present the British Empire is
divided into three parts: India,�
really an empire in itself,�Canada
and 'Australia,�dominions almost
completely independent,�and the
colonies proper.
India
India is strongly tied to Great
Britain, It has no constitution of
its own. Its conquest coincided
with the humanitarian movement
in England, and thus Englishmen,
loath formerly to let go of it he-
cause they felt that its happiness
depended on education, now con-
tinue to hang on for fear that,
once free, Jndia will return to its
former state. The Indian govern-
ment is more than self-Supporting,
bringing in considerable revenue
to Great Britain and to many in-
dividual Englishmen. The country
has the added value of its stra-
tegic position in the Eastern Hem-
isphere, and, finally, its fear of
Germany, Russia and Japan makes
it cling to England of itself.
Independence of Dominions
The colonies and dominions, how-
ever, are a different matter. They
may be divided into three kinds:
Relics of an earlier economic sys-
tem, like Jamaica; colonies ac-
quired for strategic reasons, and
colonies acquired for raw mate-
rials. Bad administration ren-
dered these expensive rather than
profitable in the middle of the 19th
century. The result was a strong
anti-imperialistic movement and
an indifference to actual posses-
sions. Australia and Canada were
settled, not conquered. Originally,
the emigrants were mostly unde-
sirables and England was eager
to be lid of them as completely
as possible. This, added to indif-
ference, and the consequent liberal
grants of self-government, con-
dor tinned on Page Four
Miss Park to Attend
West Coast Meetings
Miss Park is planning a month's
trip, during which she will address
and attend a series of meetings
on the West Coast.
Leaving for the West Coast the
first or second of November, Miss
Park will arrive in Los Angeles
the sixth, when her round of
speeches and meetings begins al-
most immediately. As chairman
of the College Entrance Examina-
tion Board, she will speak to the
head-mistresses of the Pacific
Coast November 7. President Park
will spend the seventh and eighth
with this group, attending various
discussions and meetings. From
Continued on Pag� Five
Miss Henderson Has Had Wide Experience,
Directed Charleys Aunt and John Garfield
Directing the Varsity Players'
major fall production, Stage Door,
will not be purely a matter of in-
spiration to Miss Mary Henderson,
instructor of diction, since she has
had past experience in the profes-
sional theatre. For three years she
directed the Santa Fe Players, in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, presenting
such varied productions as western
melodramas for the fiesta, the per-
ennial Charlie's Aunt, ("what a
money-maker," Miss Henderson
said,) Synge's Irish plays, and The
Road to Rome.
grated to New York. She worked
under Eva Le Gallienne in the low-
price Civic Repertory Theatre, act-
ing, stage-managing, and directing
the apprentice group. She had a
chance to see all sides of directing,
since the plays rotated, and ranged
from Chekov and Ibsen to the mod-
ern play S'wy fried, by Jean Girau-
dou, and Miss Le Gallienne's memo-
rable Alice in Wonderland. She
thus acquired a far fuller experi-
ence than working on Broadway
plays would have given.
Miss Henderson directed some of
the younger actors who have since
made their mark,�Burgess Mere-
dith, Mark Lawrence, Leona Rob-
erts and Helen Walpole who later
appeared on Broadway in Stage
Door, ./�ir\a John Garfield, then
In 1930 Miss Henderson felt the known as Jules Garfinkle, and won-
need for further range and mj^jrerful, Miss Henderson said, in
Awake and Sivy. There was only
one thing the matter with him, she
sighed. "He had a hard R. I work-
ed on it. But I saw Out of the Fog
last night, and he has it still."
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